The myth of the Jewish race / Raphael Patai and Jennifer Patai Wing.

Format:

• Book

Author/Creator:

• Patai, Raphael, 1910-1996.
• Patai, Jennifer, 1942- author.

Contributor:

• Mazal Holocaust Collection
• Library of Adas Kodesch Shel Emeth (University of Pennsylvania)

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

• Jews.

Penn Provenance:

• Adas Kodesch Shel Emeth (donor)

Physical Description:

x, 350 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm

Place of Publication:

New York : Scribner, [1975]

Summary:

Compiles historical, psychological, and genetic evidence relating to past and contemporary Jewish populations and intra-Jewish ethnic differences, concluding that there is no such thing as a distinct and separate Jewish race.

Contents:

• Preface
• Introduction
• Racism and slavery
• Racism and anti-Semitism
• Pre-racist anti-Semitism
• Race as a genetic concept
• Race and culture
• Part I. Historical. Four views on the Jewish "race"
• Jews constitute one single race
• Jews comprise two distinct races
• Jews comprise three races
• Jews are not a separate racial group
• An excursus into statistics
• Introductory remarks
• Benjamin of Tudela
• Medieval Spain
• England
• France
• Italy
• Germany
• Hungary
• Bohemia
• Poland, Lithuania, Russia
• Sum totals
• Conclusion
• Proselytism
• Extent and evaluation
• In Biblical times
• The Second Commonwealth and Hellenism
• The Talmudic Period: Palestine and Babylonia
• In pre-Islamic Arabia and North Africa
• Under Islam
• The Khazars
• Early medieval Christendom
• Spain and Portugal
• Sweden
• Poland
• Russia
• Intermarriage and interbreeding
• In the Second Commonwealth
• In Talmudic times
• Under early Christianity
• In the Muslim world
• Medieval Europe
• Modern times
• Slavery and concubinage
• In Biblical and Talmudic times
• In the Muslim east
• In Muslim and Christian Spain
• In the Ashkenazi world
• Jus Primae Noctis
• Part II. Psychological. The Jewish mind
• The problem of comparative intelligence
• Jewish general intelligence
• Jews and genius
• Special talents
• Character traits
• Part III. Genetic. Morphological traits
• Height
• Hair and eye color
• Nose
• Cephalic index
• Hand clasping and arm folding
• Fingerprint patterns
• Conclusions
• Looking Jewish
• Criteria for classification of races
• Jewish inbreeding and its effects
• The "Jewish" blood: ABO
• The "Jewish" blood: other blood groups
• Serum and red cell proteins
• Haptoglobin (Hp
• Group-Specific component (Gc)
• Serum Pseudocholinesterase (PCE)
• Red cell acid phosphatase (PGM1)
• Adenosine Deaminase (ADA)
• Adenylate Kinase (AK)
• Red cell Glutamic-Pyruvic Transaminase (GPT)
• Glucose-6-Phosphate Dehydrogenase deficiency
• PTC taste sensitivity
• Color blindness
• Genetic distance between Jewish and non-Jewish groups
• "Jewish" diseases
• Rare inherited diseases unusually frequent or infrequent among Ashkenazi Jews
• Inherited diseases found in Oriental and Sephardi Jews
• Common inherited diseases: Thalassemia
• Common diseases with a genetic component
• Conclusions to Part III
• APPENDIX: Diagrams and tables
• Notes
• Glossary
• Index
• Picture supplement following p. 226.

Notes:

• Includes bibliographical references.
• Anisfield-Wolf Book Awards - Nonfiction, Winner, 1976
• National Jewish Book Awards - Jewish History, Winner, 1976

Local Notes:

Presented to the Penn Libraries by the Board of Governors of Adas Kodesch Shel Emeth.

Other Format:

Online version: Patai, Raphael, 1910-1996. Myth of the Jewish race.

ISBN:

• 0684139065
• 9780684139067

OCLC:

979249